I believe you have that inverted: if your employer gives you a schedule (among other things), that makes you an employee.

Correct. But the point stands about being able to only work for one ride sharing app. How could they possibly cover minimum wage for folks without setting a schedule and requiring that they not be working for other apps at the same time?

Perhaps by having drivers commit to a single platform, an hour at a time. At the end of the hour-long "shift" the driver then picks which platform to work for in the next hour, or chooses to go home.

Hilarious stuff here. "Yes, I was wrong in my original post, I had it absolutely backwards. However, did you consider something totally unrelated?"

This shouldn't have been downvoted. it's 100% accurate and the grandparent post's pivoting from one topic to another is a classic bad debate tactic.

I imagine the reason it's downvoted is not because the point isn't valid, but because of the tone.

From the HN guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

By the way, remarking about whether a comment should or should not be downvoted is also against HN guidelines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Yes, I'm fully aware of that.

It's not a pivot. I literally mentioned double dipping in my parent comment. At any rate, unless you are a salaried worker, you have to have a schedule so that minimum wage can be computed.